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Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $8.59Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily... -
Quantum Science of Psychedelics: The Pineal Gland, Multidimensional Reality, and Mayan Cosmology by Carl Johan Calleman 9781591433620
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.89A groundbreaking exploration of how psychedelics and quantum science are vital to understanding the evolution of consciousness and reality * Explains why altered states of consciousness exist, how... -
Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $45.13The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and... -
Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam by Ali Paya 9780367887490
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices. Does it seek to "modernise" in line with the cultures in which it is practised, or does it retain its traditions even... -
Say Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High Dr Suzi Gage 9781473686243
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.63'Essential' Adam Rutherford, bestselling author of How to Argue With a Racist'In an area where factual accuracy is often rejected in favour of moralising or panicking this book is a vitally useful... -
The Spirit of the Rainforest: How Indigenous Wisdom Reconnects Us to Nature by Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza 9781856755580
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45*As featured in the NEW YORK TIMES*'Every page feels alive with passion' - Sophie Pavelle, author of 'Forget Me Not''A beautiful book' - Levison Wood, author of 'Walking the Himalayas'Named as the... -
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terrence McKenna by Dennis McKenna
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.93Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the... -
The DoubleBlind Guide to Psychedelics: A Roadmap to Tripping, Microdosing, and Beyond by Madison Margolin 9781648291791
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.13The definitive user's guide to the world of psychedelic drugs from the editors of DoubleBlind, the leading psychedelics media platformWhether they're searching for meaning, for healing, for... -
The Mind of Plants: Reimagining the Nature of Plant Cognition by John C. Ryan
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.89Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they... -
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas by Benjamin Hebblethwaite
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the... -
Rethinking Madrasah Education in a Globalised World by Mukhlis Abu Bakar
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Why is there a need to rethink madrasah education? What is the positioning of Muslims in contemporary society, and how are they prepared? What is the role of the ulama in the reform process? This... -
Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances by Cody Johnson 9781577158370
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.40"Cody Johnson beautifully balances historical knowledge with cutting-edge science to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read which paints a holistic picture of the risks and benefits of... -
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $39.00Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern... -
Zen Buddhism: Your Personal Guide to Practice and Tradition: Volume 1 Joshua R. Paszkiewicz 9781577153658
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.44Connect more meaningfully to the cultural wisdom and spiritual teachings of Buddhism. Explore Buddhist traditions and older ways of connecting with spirituality by going straight to the heart of... -
Golgotha by Nirjay Mahindru 9781849434737
Booksplease Price: $31.12'The past is a very dangerous place' Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives. Loretta arrives in Victorian England as a wide-eyed young Ayah for two... -
In Celebration of Play: An Integrated Approach to Play and Child Development by Paul F. Wilkinson
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64Play is the child's way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation facilities children need a wide variety of... -
The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr 9780061125874
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $74.09An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive... -
Muslim Women and Agency: an Australian Context by Ghena Krayem 9789004400573
Booksplease Price: $149.71Muslim women’s freedom, or assumed lack thereof, has long been a Western obsession. Almost never do we ask, what does agency look like to Muslim women? Who or what do they think constrains them, and... -
Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance by Christina Sunardi 9780252038952
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. Christina... -
Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine by Alex Belser 9781957869032
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68As psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility... -
The Technique of Greek Sculpture by Chief Nurse Sheila Adam
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.25They were told to hold the fort. They did far more than that.When the Second World War broke out, the task of keeping society afloat fell on the shoulders of the women left behind. Women the world... -
Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*king Up to Waking Up by Chris Grosso 9781501173974
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.03Chris Grosso invites us to sit in on conversations with beloved luminaries and bestselling authors such as Ram Dass, Lissa Rankin, Noah Levine, Gabor Mate, and Sharon Salzberg to discover why people... -
The Empress by Tanika Gupta 9781350428584
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class... -
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains by Pria Anand 9781668064023
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $26.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668064023Author Pria AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
How to Change Your Body: What the Science of Interoception Can Teach Us About Healing through Connection by Saga Briggs 9781957869100
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00How to Change Your Body provides an enlightening discourse on the missing piece of the mind-body relationship - our need for social connection. What if symptoms from some of our most common... -
Old Deccan Days: Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India by Mary Frere 9781108020770
Booksplease Price: $72.41First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) travelled to India... -
Women in War by Lizzie Lane 9781837518456
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $43.95She must face the terror of war alone to survive…1939 - India When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her... -
Women in War: An emotional and powerful family saga from bestseller Lizzie Lane by Lizzie Lane 9781837518449
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $38.68She must face the terror of war alone to survive…1939 - India When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her... -
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs by The McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy 9781957869230
RRP: $90.28Booksplease Price: $61.28Own the next chapter in the world's most enduring exploration of psychoactive medicine and human potential-and help shape the ethical, ecological, and visionary renaissance unfolding now. For anyone... -
Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis: Shared Lineages by Anila Zainub 9789004404571
Booksplease Price: $111.68Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis presents research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice. It pertains to the ways in which individuals, groups, and... -
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 9781857159066
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other... -
Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling 9781857151992
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Ranging in subject matter from the Indain to the Occult, from children to animals, from domestic... -
Women in War: An emotional and powerful family saga from bestseller Lizzie Lane by Lizzie Lane 9781837518463
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.33She must face the terror of war alone to survive...1939 - India When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her... -
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability by L. L. Wynn 9781477317044
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.14Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability-and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and... -
Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History Rozina Visram 9780745313733
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.49This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and... -
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 9781857159325
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.37Among the best loved of all classics for children are the tales of Mowgli, the boy who learned the law of the jungle as he grew up among a pack of wolves in India's Seeonee Hills. First published in... -
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability by L. L. Wynn 9781477317075
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability-and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and... -
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta 9781108837385
Booksplease Price: $214.89Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration,... -
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta 9781009415491
Booksplease Price: $48.87Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration,... -
Eden Gardens: The unputdownable story of love in an Indian summer Louise Brown 9781472226105
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A luscious, enthralling and colourful novel of India, sure to appeal to readers of Dinah Jefferies' THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE. 'Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your...